Treating hypertonic muscles in athletes is a vital step in helping to avoid the development of trigger points. The demands that an athlete puts on his or her body during the endless hours of training and competing can lead to ongoing hypertonicity that builds up in their muscles. In this video, Stuart Hinds demonstrates a soft-tissue approach to treating muscle hypertonicity.

Stretching is slightly more technical than swinging a leg over a park bench. There are rules and techniques that will maximize its benefits and minimize the risk of injury. We will look at the different types of stretching, the particular benefits, and the risks and uses, as well as give a description of how each type is performed.

How the smartphone has become the therapists magic tool! Runners frequently develop hip, knee and shin pain much of which may have trigger points as a root cause. Because trigger points make their host muscles shorter, weaker, and less efficient, this will often cause the runner to unknowingly compensate putting undesired strain on other muscles, with a knock-on effect in form, technique and performance. In today's video blog, Stuart Hinds shows how he uses the video app on his phone to assess the running technique of his clients, and to help identify those tiny but all important signals that something might...

The demands that an athlete puts on his or her body during the endless hours of training and competing can lead to a whole range of 'hidden' dangers, none more so than the ongoing hypertonicity that builds up in their muscles.